On Monday 19 February 2001 10:19, Joost Kremers wrote:
hi again,
What does ifconfig tell you? Just open a console window and type ifconfig. You should see information about your network card Do you have a link light on your network card?
ifconfig gives me the following:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:30:39:5E UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x210
the link light on the network card is blinking happily...
furthermore, the dhcp client drops the following messages in /var/log/messages:
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
(the interval number varies)
and a bit later:
No DHCPOFFERS received
guess that means no go... :-)
something else i should have mentioned earlier: when i start windows, Microsoft Networking is started. that is how i get to the internet and my e-mail under windows. if i by-pass it, i have no access to the internet or to e-mail.
thanks,
joost
Joost, Sound's like it may be time to steal an IP Address. Do you have a system that is running 95 and works on the network? If so, go into a DOS window and type in ipconfig /all (I'm not sure about the /all ) and see if you can determine what IP address it's using, as well as the router. Take those and put them into your linux network configuration and shutdown the 95 box. Then try again. Hopefully they leave the IP Addresses fixed for each machine. Steve